Holly Ober

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Media relations for physical and life sciences at UCLA. https://ucla.in/45FA7Oe . Proud member of UC's comms worker union: ComMaS-UAW https://www.uc-uaw.org/election

A sealed jar of chemicals bathed in blue light that stimulate catalytic reacionts. Credit: Flora Fan
Two pine siskin birds at a bird feeder. Credit: Cephas/Wikimedia Commons
Artist rendering of the four planets in the V1298 Tau system. Four blue planets with fuzzy atmospheres swirl around a blazing sun. Credit: Astrobiology Center, NINS
Yellow mysterious swirl pattern etched on a metal surface. Credit: Yilin Wong
The image shows a laser (purple arrow) illuminating the electrodeposited thorium (orange) and the electrons (yellow arrows) hitting a detector (the detector front face is made to look like a clock as an artistic liberty). Credit: Richard Elwell and Christian Schneider
A wineglass of water on an empty plate with a fork and knife on either side. Credit: Dr Jean Fortunet/Wikimedia Commons
A pile of orange cheese puffs. Credit: AbbieImages/iStock
A deep fissure in a Myanmar road that was caused by a 2025 supershear earthquake. Photo credit: Kofoehtet/Wikimedia Commons
Reconstructed image of the compact, fast-rotating asymmetric disc around β CMi. The white scale bar at the bottom right marks 1 milliarcsecond — equivalent to a 6 feet scale at the distance of the moon. credit: Yoo Jung Kim/UCLA
A grid collage of 6 children who have healthy immune systems now thanks to a gene therapy developed at UCLA and UCL,
Two arrow signs above one another. The top arrow points left and says One Way. The bottom arrow points right and says Or Another. Credit: Sophia Kunkel / Unsplash
A heart model made by BruceBlaus on Wikimedia Commons
Illustration of DNA double helix
A mother and baby elephant drink water from a river in Dzhangha-Sangha National Park. Credit: Richard Rosomoff
A microscopy image of the outer region of the rhesus macaque ovary. Credit: Sissy Wamaitha
A woman wearing headphones and holding a pen while pausing thoughtfully over a notebook.
A fungicide made of copper sulfate and lime on grape leaves.
A quote from UCLA professor Lara Ray about the importance of continued federal funding for alcoholism treatment drug trials.
A planet with a long, comet-like tail orbits a bright yellow sun.
A lone sea otter